MicroHoo: The 411 — In the interests of getting Yahoo and Microsoft to make nice before all hell breaks loose on Monday, BoomTown is here to help. — Sources tell me Yahoo's board might gather Sunday to consider their options, although plans are still in flux.

BlackBerry's Quest: Fend Off the iPhone — STEVE JOBS, Apple's chief executive and field general, has Napoleonic dreams of global conquest for his 10-month-old wonder gadget, the iPhone. So it may be fitting that he's encountering his most serious resistance in a city called Waterloo.

LEAKED: Apple to Licence Haptic Technology for iPhone — Apple Inc is in talks with Immersion Corporation to licence Haptic Technology for its iPhone. Immersion Corporation on Thursday announced that they have appointed former Apple executive Clent Richardson to the position of President and CEO.

Twitpitch Is The Future — I am shifting permanently to twitpitching as the sole medium for companies to pitch me. I debuted the idea in the past few weeks, leading up to Web 2.0 Expo (see Web 2.0 Expo Meeting Scheduling: Twitpitch Me! and As Bad As It Gets: The Case For Twitpitches, Part II ).

PC makers find ways to extend XP's life — Facing a June 30 deadline to stop selling PCs with Windows XP, the world's largest computer makers are getting creative. — Taking advantage of the “downgrade rights” offered as part of the Windows Vista license agreement, Hewlett-Packard and Dell …

Rackspace Files IPO, Will Set Price Via Auction — Web hosting provider Rackspace filed for an initial public offering with the SEC last night, as we predicted it would. The company will try to raise $400 million, and it intends to set the IPO price through an auction, much like Google did.

Google Docs Lives to Share the Words — Mike Riversdale wrote the best article I've read about Google Docs. “Google Docs ... so what - the ONE reason why you should care” doesn't talk only about Google Docs, it's also about Zoho, wikis or any other tool that lets you write, collaborate and share your documents.

Possibly an Announcement — Blog posts can be a total tease. You get to the end and you're ready for more, but all that's there is maybe some post navigation, and if you're lucky a few comments. If your appetite was whetted by the awesome post you just read there's no place for you to go …

What's Your Twitter Noise Ratio? — The many thousands of people who use Twitter do so in wildly different ways. Some use it to deliver minute by minute updates of their daily activity. Others use it to hold conversations with friends and peers using the service.